Movie Description
Testimony
(1988)Overview
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Featured Crew
- Director : Tony Palmer
- Producer : Grahame Jennings,Michael Henry,Tony Palmer,Michael Kustow
- Writer : Tony Palmer,David Rudkin
- Editor : Tony Palmer
- Cast : Ben Kingsley,Sherry Baines,Magdalen Asquith,Mark Asquith,Terence Rigby,Ronald Pickup,John Shrapnel,Robert Reynolds,Vernon Dobtcheff,Brook Williams,Peter Woodthorpe,William Squire,Dorota Kwiatkowska,Liza Goddard,Murray Melvin,Robert Urquhart,Chris Barrie,Frank Carson,Ed Bishop,Collin Hurst,Joyce Grundy,Mark Thrippleton,Robert Stephens,Murray Melvin,Jane Cox,Julian Stanley,David Sharpe,Rowen Parr,Bronco McLoughlin,Christopher Bramwell,Marita Philips,Mitzi Mueller,Tracey Spence,Andrew Brittain,Curly Carter,Rosemary Chamney,Chris D'Bray,Val Elliott,Peter Faulkner
Cast
Dmitri Shostakovich
Nina Shostakovich
Galya Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Joseph Stalin
Marshall Tukhachevsky
Andre Zhdanov
Brutus
Gargolovsky
H.G. Wells
Alexander Glazunov
Khatchaturyan
Anna Akhmatova
English Humanist
Film Editor
Journalist
Carnival Thin Man
Carnival Fat Man
American Commentator
Stalin's Secretary
Stalin's Mother
Young Stalin
Vsevolod Meyerhold
The Film Editor
The Widow
Andre Gide
Mandelstam
Galya (aged 39)
Cossack
Vanya
Madam Lupinskaya
The Nun
Tsvetayeva
Malko
Cross Eyed Man
Concierge
Dorian Gray
French Schoolmarm
Mayakovsky
Posters
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Richard Jewell
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Ararat
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My Dinner with Hervé
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Hounddog
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Panther
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The Last Rifleman
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Mother Night
6.635
Dalíland
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England Is Mine
5.8
Facts
Original TitleTestimony
Status Released
Release Information
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1988-11-01
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 02h 37m
Production CompaniesIsolde Films,ORF,Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS),DR,SVT,Film4 Productions
Genres
- Drama
- History
